Excerpt from The History of Elsmere and Rosa, an Episode, Vol. 2 of 2: The Merry Matter Written by John Mathers; The Grave, by a Solid Gentleman Elsmere, a willing horse, after trotting on a good way, got knocked up, and was thin to come to a foot's pace; he kept. On, however, well knowing that, if he could but set one leg before the other, be his pace never so slow, it would bring him to his journey's end at last: our young hero had a long way to go, and many lets and impediments to meet withal, but more of this presently. When a man is put to hard labour it is apt to make him look a little grave; Els mere, though he was never known to laugh much, was now seldom seen to smile: his fellow-students said, amongst themselves, that he had seen a ghost, and his tutor at the University thought he was going mad. Reader, perhaps you have heard of a thing called conscience? Elsmere bad a thing of this sort, and it was so trouble some to him that he could not rest night or day for it: it pricked him so much in his inside that, one day, he was in doubt if he had not swallowed a great hedge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.